The Mid-Autumn Festival is in a few days.
The day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the simple classrooms in Kang'an District were finally built thanks to the concerted efforts of the military and civilians.
Recommended and encouraged by Director Cheng, Shen Xiaobei stepped onto the podium for the first time that morning and gave a speech at the opening ceremony to all the students in Kang'an District.
She spent two days writing and revising the speech.
The speech was sincere, touching and inspiring. Most students shed tears at first, but then slowly cheered up.
At the end of her speech, the students followed her in shouting three times: "Study hard to rebuild our homeland, study hard to revitalize our country!"
Director Cheng and other teachers and temporary substitute teachers listened to Shen Xiaobei's speech throughout and were all moved to tears.
After the opening ceremony, Shen Xiaobei taught two Chinese classes for senior students that afternoon.
Because the books were not in place yet, she had no teaching materials to use.
In these two classes, she taught her students composition lessons.
We started with the most basic writing skills, taught them how to write a good composition, and then assigned them a topic to write that day.
For those who didn't have notebooks, paper and pens, she took some out from the space and gave one to each student.
The national college entrance examination will be resumed next year. As long as these students continue their studies, they will have the opportunity to take the college entrance examination in the future.
In the college entrance examination, the score for composition cannot be underestimated.
Laying a good foundation in writing essays in middle school will be a plus point for their college entrance examination in the future. Therefore, Shen Xiaobei also began to instill in these disaster-stricken students the importance of reading and writing essays.
These two items can even influence and determine a person's destiny in the future.
After being a teacher for a whole day, and it was also his first day as a teacher, Shen Xiaobei felt particularly fulfilled after school.
Not only do I feel particularly fulfilled, but I also feel particularly valuable.
Standing on the podium, looking at the dozens of students of varying ages below, all with eyes filled with an immense thirst for knowledge, they looked at her so seriously and attentively, and listened to her lectures.
She felt a particularly strong sense of mission and honor.
She also suddenly felt that she understood more deeply why Duan Xichuan loved the military profession so much?
Because the sense of mission and honor that the military profession brings him must be countless times stronger than her current job as a substitute teacher in a disaster area.
The next day, Shen Xiaobei continued to teach the students composition class. After the class, he assigned the students another composition topic in class.
While the students were writing their second essay, she sat at the podium and corrected their first essay they wrote yesterday.
Write long and careful comments for each one.
After reading the first essays written by these students, she basically had a general understanding of their writing level.
Then, we will give detailed and in-depth explanations on their weaknesses and provide one-on-one guidance.
After interacting with these students one by one that day, Shen Xiaobei almost forgot that he was a novice teacher who had just been teaching for two days. He felt as if he was an old head teacher with many years of teaching experience.
After school in the afternoon, when all the students had left, she remained alone in the classroom, concentrating on correcting the second essay they had handed in, and even forgot to get her lunch.
"Teacher Shen, why are you still busy in the classroom?"
When Director Cheng came over for inspection in the evening, he saw Shen Xiaobei still in the classroom, so he walked in and asked with concern.
"Hey, Director Cheng, yes, I'm correcting the essays submitted by the children."
"Teacher Shen, you really put in the effort. The children responded very well to your lessons!"
"I heard a child say today that after listening to your composition lesson, it was like his brain suddenly opened up. Now he can finally write brilliantly! He no longer scratches his head when writing like before."
"Hahaha, really, Director Cheng? I've never heard any child say that to me!"
"Yes, I heard it with my own ears today!"
"Teacher Shen, it seems I really found the right Chinese teacher for these children. You've been really hard-working during this period. I know that teaching high-grade children is a demanding task and not an easy one!"
"That's not the case, Director Cheng. It's not hard work. I feel very honored to be able to teach these children Chinese."
Director Cheng and Shen Xiaobei continued to exchange pleasantries in the classroom for a while, talking about some things about the students, when the radio in Kang'an District, which had been repaired just a few days ago, suddenly rang.
On the radio, the announcer read a shocking obituary in the most solemn voice.
The great national leader passed away in Beijing early this morning.
Upon hearing the obituary, Shen Xiaobei's hand holding the pen suddenly trembled. She and Director Cheng slowly looked at each other, both of them with astonishment and grief on their faces, and they were no longer able to speak.
I don't know how the two of them walked out of the classroom.
All I know is that after I walked out of the classroom, I could hear people crying sadly everywhere in the tents along the way.
They only lost their home at the end of July.
Just over a month has passed and we have lost another beloved national leader.
Such heavy blows one after another are like adding insult to injury for the victims of the Yanshan disaster.
Their spirits, which had just begun to cheer up, were instantly thawed back into the ice cellar.
Some elderly people were even crying their hearts out, complaining that God was too cruel to the people of Yanshan, and that tragedies happened one after another!
After hearing this, Shen Xiaobei felt extremely bitter.
It’s not that God is too cruel to the people of Yanshan, but history is such a coincidence. This year is a particularly eventful year.
However, everything has its limits.
When a person, an event, or a period falls to the bottom, it will definitely rebound, then slowly get up and move in a good direction.
This is the law of history, and this eventful year is no exception.
The death of the national leader indeed made the victims sad and depressed for a long time.
Especially on the day when the military and civilians at the resettlement site held a memorial service together, there was a chorus of weeping and grief.
The mountains, rivers, sun and moon all lost their color because of crying.
However, amidst everyone's grief and depression, Shen Xiaobei knew that if she remembered correctly, those famous historical figures would be arrested next month.
A special period will soon come to an end, the country will embark on a new blueprint, and the lives of the people will become more and more promising.
The tragedies of the past few years, whether caused by man or nature, will become history.
Knowing that there is hope for the future, whether for individuals or the country, Shen Xiaobei adjusted his emotions as quickly as possible.
From Monday to Saturday, she teaches her students with full enthusiasm.
On Sunday, when the students had a day off, she went to other resettlement sites alone early in the morning to inquire about the news of Duan Xichuan's troops.
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